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Print Print 2014-07-18

Partly Facetious: Chaudhrys' cohabitation with...

"So if a lion roars in the jungle and there is no one around then what do your make of it?"
Published July 18, 2014

"So if a lion roars in the jungle and there is no one around then what do your make of it?"
"Well, for all I know the lion had strep throat and his roar came out as a whimper."
"A lion is a lion my friend, he is still the king of the jungle whether he roars or whimpers."
"Yes, but an old king of the jungle is usually displaced by a younger member of the same species and..."
"God forbid, there be any replacement. I was referring to the PML-N with the symbol of a lion and Mian sahib as the head of the tribe and a member of his tribe Ahsan Iqbal came up with, one assumes the party thesis on why it is under pressure these days and..."
"You do know that there is only one strong male head of the tribe - the others are mainly full grown lionesses, who are the wives, and then there are children and..."
"Wives?"
"Well. we are living in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and I thought if I used any other word like cohabitation and harem then I may give offense."
"What would you say about Chaudhrys' current cohabitation with Tahirul Qadri as well as Sheikh Rashid?"
"An alliance."
"And those in the alliance?"
"Don't carry it to the ridiculous anyway in Urdu the expression is who saw the peacock danced in the jungle?"
"Hey I don't see no peacocks here, anyway Ahsan Iqbal, a junior member of the tribe, said that if the party releases Musharraf then the pressure would ease and said that is doable if a constitutional amendment is passed that allows a different law for a deposed dictator and a different one for the politicians and the people..."
"Excuse me, but from where I am sitting there is a different law for the politician of a ruling party, there is a different law for a person with political influence, a different law for..."
"The laws are the same the implementation is different for different socio-income groups."
"Precisely but could you explain Iqbal's logic: the establishment would ease pressure once Musharraf is allowed to leave the country while Imran Khan's long march is against the army operation - now if I were him I would have logically tried to isolate Khan from the army by saying that he announced the march to put further pressure on a government that is already under pressure from non-democratic forces and..."
"Hey, don't you know how our politicians work: one step forward two steps back; net result loadshedding, lawlessness, nepotism..."
"I get it."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2014

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